The Wutach () is a river, 91 kilometres long, in the southeastern part of the

Black Forest The Black Forest ( ) is a large forested mountain range in the States of Germany, state of Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany, bounded by the Rhine Valley to the west and south and close to the borders with France and Switzerland. It is th ...

in the German state of

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. It is a right-hand tributary of the

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. In its lower reaches it flows for about 6 kilometres along the border with the canton of

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, Switzerland.

Name

The name Wutach means "furious water", referring to the whitewater rapids in the gorge. ''Wut'' is recognisably cognate to a modern German word for anger; ''ach'', which forms part of the names of many rivers in the region, comes from an old Celtic word for water, cognate with

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''aqua''.

Course

The river changes its name twice before it discharges into the

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near Waldshut: It rises in the

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as the Seebach in a highland hollow known as the ''Grüble'', only a few metres below the summit of the Seebuck, a subpeak of the Black Forest's highest mountain, the Feldberg. Shortly thereafter it drops in three cascades through a height of 62 metres down the Feldsee Waterfall into the rocky

cirque A (; from the Latin word ) is an amphitheatre-like valley formed by Glacier#Erosion, glacial erosion. Alternative names for this landform are corrie (from , meaning a pot or cauldron) and ; ). A cirque may also be a similarly shaped landform a ...

lake of the Feldsee. Heading east-northeast, the stream then follows the glacially formed Bärental valley through the municipality of Feldberg to Lake Titisee. During this stretch it is joined by the Sägenbach, which rises on the Baldenweger Buck on the Feldberg. More than 70% of the average water volume of both streams is siphoned off before their confluence and diverted to the Schluchseewerk hydropower station. As a result, at the Bärental Gauge above the just under 5-metre-high Seebach Waterfall, the Seebach only has a volumetric flow of 0.3 m³/s instead of its natural 0.8 m³/s.Abfluss-BW - regionalisierte Abfluss-Kennwerte Baden-Württemberg
/ref> Below the little waterfall the Seebach enters a flat valley basin which has filled the silted-up, upper part of the Titisee since the last ice age. The stream now flows in wide meanders through the bogs of the nature reserve before reaching Lake Titisee. From the Titisee the sluggishly flowing meadow river is called the Gutach ("good stream"). Before Neustadt it swings sharply through 90° to the right and heads southeast in the direction of the almost equally large Josbach/Langenordnach. Below the town, two large bridges cross the valley: the Gutach Viaduct carrying the B 31 and the ''Gutach Bridge'' with the Höllental Railway. From here on the river rushes through an ever deepening gorge. From the confluence where the river acquires the name Wutach, it flows ESE through a series of three gorges with a total length of more than and a maximum depth of (see

Wutach Gorge The Wutach Gorge () is a narrow, steep-sided valley in southern Germany through in the upper reaches of the River Wutach with three gorge-like sections, the lowest of which is also called the ''Wutachflühen''. The gorge cuts through the southern ...

) which has long been a tourist attraction. Between the second and the last part of the gorge, near the village of Achdorf in the municipality of

Blumberg Blumberg () is a municipality situated in the Schwarzwald-Baar region of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. south of Donaueschingen, it lies between the southern edge of the ''Schwarzwald'', the Black Forest, the border with Switzerland's Canton of Sc ...

, it takes a sharp turn (known as the ''Wutachknie'' or Knee of the Wutach), and subsequently flows SW to join the

near Tiengen in the town of

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. At the ''Wutachknie'' the river is very close to the headwaters of the

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, until the last glacial period the upper course of the Wutach was the

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of the Danube catchment (called ''Feldbergdonau''). The lower Wutach valley is straight, wide-bottomed and very densely populated. The river forms the border between Germany and Switzerland for two sections that total about 6 kilometres in length, after which it is canalised. The most important settlements in this part of the valley are the town of

Stühlingen Stühlingen (; High Alemannic German, High Alemannic: ''Stüelinge'') is a town in the Waldshut (district), Waldshut district in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the border with Switzerland, with a border crossing to the village of Ob ...

and the villages of Eggingen and Wutöschingen. Before Lauchringen the Wutach turns again in the same direction as a tributary, this time the Klingengrabens/Kotbach which arrives in a broad valley from the Klettgau region. In Unterlauchringen the Wutach forms one of the largest

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in Germany, the power of which is why the Lauffenmühle was built here, the largest industrial concern on the Wutach. The largest town in the Wutach valley is nearby Tiengen, where the Wutach is joined by the Kotbach from the Black Forest as well as its most important tributaries, the Steina and Schlücht. The Wutach finally empties into the

between Küssaberg-Kadelburg and

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, a little below the

rapids Rapids are sections of a river where the river bed has a relatively steep stream gradient, gradient, causing an increase in water velocity and turbulence. Flow, gradient, constriction, and obstacles are four factors that are needed for a rapid t ...

of the Kadelburger/Koblenzer Laufen. The stretch of the Wutach is the site of two remarkable railways. The upper stretch of the first gorge is crossed and followed by the so-called '' Höllentalbahn''. The valley just below the third gorge is the site of the Wutach Valley Railway, officially known in German as the ''Wutachtalbahn'' but commonly known as the ''Sauschwänzlebahn'' (pigtail) because it proceeds in a series of tight turns, including crossing back over itself, in order to make a substantial increase in height without exceeding a 1:100 gradient.

Catchment

The Wutach drains almost the entire south-eastern slopes of the Black Forest. There, its waters first flow through

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ly formed valley troughs, carved into the

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rocks of High Black Forest. Here are the lakes of the Feldsee and Titisee (Gutach), Windgfällweiher (Haslach), Schluchsee ( Schwarza) and Schlüchtsee ( Schlücht). After flowing through several very narrow ravines, the streams reach the edge of the Black Forest and the

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limestone Limestone is a type of carbonate rock, carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material Lime (material), lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different Polymorphism (materials science) ...

and

mudstone Mudstone, a type of mudrock, is a fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were clays or muds. Mudstone is distinguished from ''shale'' by its lack of fissility.Blatt, H., and R.J. Tracy, 1996, ''Petrology.'' New York, New York, ...

series of the

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. The lower course of the Wutach, which bends to head southwest, runs past the foot of the dominant White Jurassic step of the

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and of Randen, at right angles to the

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and thus collects several Black forest rivers. The Kotbach, flowing from the other side to the east and parallel to the High Rhine, follows an ice age Rhine channel (the ''Klettgaurinne''). The Wutach only drains parts of the Black Forest and thus resembles the Enz in this respect. The average annual discharge depths of the

catchment area A catchment area in human geography, is the area from which a location, such as a city, service or institution, attracts a population that uses its services and economic opportunities. Catchment areas may be defined based on from where people are ...

vary considerably; ranging from over 1,100 mm in the High Black Forest to less than 300 mm in the Klettgau.Walter Wundt: ''Die mittleren Abflusshöhen und Abflussspenden des Winters, des Sommers und des Jahres in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland'', Remagen, 1958, Kartenbeilage The visible depth of the Wutach in its river bed, is much lower than would be expected of a river than under natural circumstances drained a catchment of 1,140 km². This is due to the water siphoned off for the Schluchseewerk power station, which particularly affects its largest tributary, the Schlücht Owing to its riverbed gradient of, on average, 13 ‰, critical high water often occurs on the Wutach. A well-known historical lithograph shows the valley floor at the Stühlinger Zwirnerei completely covered by water. Its lower reaches were therefore canalised and dyked in order to provide flood protection at the beginning of the 20th century. In the meantime, even former floodplains have been utilised for new construction and industrial areas.

River history

The lower Wutach flows along the line of the valley once occupied by the much more powerful upper Ancient Danube (''Urdonau''), but in the opposite direction. At the turn of the

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had its source in the area of what is today the upper Rhone. This river system fragmented and most of it gradually became a network of tributaries of the Rhine river system (For more information, see

). Latterly, the upper and middle reaches of today's Wutach formed the Feldberg Danube, the upper course of the Danube. But after the watershed between the aggraded Feldberg Danube and the downward-cutting Ancient Wutach, which existed until the last

ice age An ice age is a long period of reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. Earth's climate alternates between ice ages, and g ...

, had been severely eroded, the Feldberg Danube broke out to the south-west into the Rhine valley some 20,000 to 70,000 years ago, forming the striking ''Wutachknie'' at

. Because of the relatively steep gradient in its new direction of flow towards the Rhine, the river carved out the deep, roughly 30-kilometre-long, Wutach Gorge into the plateau, a process that continues today. It has excavated about two cubic kilometres of rock. The valley slopes tend to slip; this makes the Wutach Gorge even more of a transportation obstacle than its, in places, steep relief would suggest and makes the maintenance of roads and tracks, and even of hiking trails, expensive. The Aitrach flows in the former riverbed of the old Feldberg Danube from its

stream capture Stream capture, river capture, river piracy or stream piracy is a geomorphological phenomenon occurring when a stream or river drainage system or watershed is diverted from its own bed, and flows down to the bed of a neighbouring stream. This ...

point to the mouth of the present-day Danube near Kirchen-Hausen. In its uppermost, very flat valley section at Blumberg

raised bog Raised bogs, also called ombrotrophic bogs, are acidic, wet habitats that are poor in mineral salts and are home to flora and fauna that can cope with such extreme conditions. Raised bogs, unlike fens, are exclusively fed by precipitation (ombro ...

s were formed. In its upper course, the Wutach (as the "Gutach") forms another knee; it flows into the former main valley, which began at about the

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, but was cut off and redirected a long time ago by the Wild Gutach. Similar river bends in the course of the tributaries from the Black Forest also show (much earlier) re-direction, most strikingly the Schwarza leaving the Schluchsee transversely to the direction of the valley. In the lower reaches of the Wutach, the Wutach valley flows into the 'Klettgaurinne', and the Wutach then follows the direction of the Kotbach. Until the end of the Riss Ice Age, some 200,000 years ago, the Ancient Rhine flowed westward through the Klettgau here, instead of the little Klingengraben and Kotbach. At the Ettikoner Lauffen it rejoined its old river bed. Only towards the end of the

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did it move his course from Schaffhausen southwards, resulting in the well-known Rhine Falls there. At Rheinau Abbey the

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known as the ''Rheinschlaufen'' ("Rhine Loop") was formed.

Nature reserves

About a third of the course of the Wutach is protected for conservation reasons. The river rises in the

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of Feldberg, the largest in Baden-Württemberg. One of the oldest nature reserves in the country has been the

, one of the last wild river landscapes of Central Europe, which have major historical, geological and ecological significance. Nearly every rock occurring in Southern Germany is represented in the gorge, which is one of the most species-rich and intensively studied natural areas in Central Europe. A full-time nature conservation warden looks after the area, balancing the interests of up to 100,000 visitors during the summer months with the requirements of nature and landscape protection (including guided walks). One of the peculiarities of the Middle Gorge is the infiltration of the waters of the Wutach into the

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. At low water, the river can be dry up completely for a 1.3 kilometre stretch, until its waters appear,

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-like (probably completely) again. Further river sections, which are protected, are the natural river meadows above Stühlingen on the border with Switzerland (extensive

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colonies) and its estuary on the Rhine. File:Wutachtal 2.jpg, Butterbur colony on the Wutach File:Wutach fg5.jpg, Butterbur colony File:Wutach fg6.jpg, Weevil (''Liparus'') on butterbur File:Wutach fg8.jpg, Giant horsetail File:Wutach fg9.jpg, Hairy snail (''Trochulus'') File:NSG Wutachschlucht 02.jpg, Muschelkalk beds in the Gauchach riverbed File:Wutach fg2.jpg, The Wutach File:Haslachschlucht Rechenfelsen.jpg, Haslach Gorge with the ''Rechenfelsen'' rocks

Cultural landscape

From a

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perspective, only part of the Wutach is within the Black Forest. The central Wutach land with the middle and lower Wutach Gorge is outside of the forest. However, as in the Baar, one can see that the culture here relates to that of the Black Forest, and not only with regard to tourism. This is, in part due to their former common affiliation with the historic state of

Baden Baden (; ) is a historical territory in southern Germany. In earlier times it was considered to be on both sides of the Upper Rhine, but since the Napoleonic Wars, it has been considered only East of the Rhine. History The margraves of Ba ...

. The Wutach Valley Railway is often counted as one of the technically remarkable Black Forest lines. The Wutach area below Stühlingen is part of the Klettgau and the High Rhine region. In the area of the gorge, the Wutach separates the Lake Constance Alemannic German dialect region north of the gorge, from the

High Alemannic German High Alemannic is a branch of Alemannic German spoken in the westernmost Austrian state of Vorarlberg and in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Intelligibility of these dialects to non-Alemannic speakers tends to be limited. Language area The High ...

-speaking region south of it. This is particularly noticeable in the different way the letter ''k'' is spoken. On the northern side they say ''Kind'' ("child") and ''Kuchi'' (= Küche or "kitchen"), whilst in the south they say ''Chind'' and ''Chuchi'', which is closer to the dialect of neighbouring Switzerland. The locals call those living on the other side of the gorge, the ''Enne-Wiätler'' ("far side of the Wutachers"). For two short sections – between Grimmelshofen and Eggingen – the Wutach is the border river between Germany and Switzerland. The economic heart of the Wutach region is the town of Waldshut-Tiengen. The major industrial enterprises in the Wutacht valley are Sto AG (building materials and systems) in Stühlingen and Lauffenmühle (textile manufacturing) in Lauchringen. The hydropower of the Wutach and its tributaries is used by the Schluchseewerk and by the Wasser- und Elektrizitätswerk Hallau in Wunderklingen to generate energy. In the area of the Black Forest the woodworking industry is still important, even after the closure of the Neustadt Paper Factory in 1989. Between 1624 and ca. 1760, timber was rafted on the Wutach from the area around the Titisee. It was needed in the old iron smeltery of

Eberfingen Waldshut () is a Districts of Germany, ''Landkreis'' (district) in the south of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighbouring districts are (clockwise from the west) Lörrach (district), Lörrach, Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald and Schwarzwald-Baar; follow ...

. The first attempt to exploit the Wutach by building a dam for energy production was made during the

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. The project for the construction of the Wutach Dam, which was approved in 1943, ground to a halt during the

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. In 1951, the Schluchseewerk took over the plans and greatly added to them. However, the project resulted in a wide popular protest and was finally rejected for environmental reasons in 1960.

Territories

Regions

and

Regional planning regions

* Schwarzwald-Baar-Heuberg * Südlicher Oberrhein * Hochrhein-Bodensee

Districts

Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald () is a (district) in the southwest of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Fifty towns and municipalities with 133 settlements lie within the district. The district itself belongs to the region of Freiburg with the region of Sou ...

* Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis * Waldshut

Tributaries

Its

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in the area of the Black Forest are: * ''Sägenbach'' (from the Feldberg region, empties into the section of the upper Wutach called the ''Seebach'') * ''Langenordnach'' and Josbach (empties into the section of the upper Wutach called the ''Gutach'') Other tributaries of the middle reaches also form the Wutach Gorge system. In addition to the large river, the * ''Haslach'' other rivers which are well known are the Wutach fg10

* ''Rötenbach'' (from the forested eastern slopes of the Black Forest) * ''Lotenbach'' (from the eastern edge of the Black Forest near Bonndorf through the Lotenbach Gorge (''Lotenbachklamm'')) * Gauchach (with the largest side gorge, the Gauchach Gorge (''Gauchachschlucht'') and its side gorges (Tränkebach, Mauchach) * ''Schleifebach'' (from the desolate valley stump of the ''Blumberger Pforte'') In the lower reaches of the Wutach in the Bade region of Klettgau it is joined by the following streams: * ''Weilerbach'' * ''Mühlbach'' (from the Fützen valley accompanied by the winding Wutach Valley Railway) * ''Ehrenbach'' * ''Schleitheimer Bach'' (from the ''Randental'' valley, mainly on Swiss soil) * ''Mauchenbach'' Not until the last eight kilometres of the Wutach is it joined by its three largest tributaries:

Settlements

The following settlements lie on or near the Wutach: * Feldberg (southern Seebach valley) * Hinterzarten (northern Seebach valley) * Titisee-Neustadt *

Lenzkirch Lenzkirch is a municipality in the Black Forest. It lies in the district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. Geography Lenzkirch is on the Black Forest plateau, in the valley of the river Haslach, which near the south ...

(Haslach-Tal), with Kappel (start of the Wutach Gorge) * Friedenweiler (with Rötenbach at the start of the Rötenbach Gorge) * Bonndorf im Schwarzwald (south of the Wutach Gorge) *

Löffingen Löffingen () is a town in the district Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated 14 km southwest of Donaueschingen, and 40 km southeast of Freiburg Freiburg im Breisgau or simply Freiburg is the Li ...

(north of the Wutach Gorge) * Ewattingen (village of Wutach, south of the Wutach Gorge) * Mundelfingen (borough of

Hüfingen Hüfingen ( Low Alemannic: ''Hifinge'') is a town in the district of Schwarzwald-Baar, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the river Breg, 4 km south of the source of the Danube. History Hüfingen has the historical distin ...

, north of the Wutach Gorge) * Aselfingen (borough of Blumberg) * Achdorf (Stadt Blumberg) *

(east of the Wutach Gorge), with Achdorf at the knee of the Wutach *

, with Grimmelshofen at the exit of the Wutach river rockfaces *

Hallau Hallau is a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Schaffhausen (canton), Schaffhausen in Switzerland. History Though Bronze Age weapons have been found in Hallau, the first traces of a settlement da ...

(east of the Wutach, in Switzerland) *

Schleitheim Schleitheim is a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Schaffhausen (canton), Schaffhausen in Switzerland, located directly on the border with Germany. It is known as the location where the seven arti ...

(east of the Wutach, in Switzerland) * Eggingen * Wutöschingen * Horheim * Lauchringen * Tiengen

Trails

The upper Wutach area (Seebach valley, Titisee, Schluchsee, Hochfirst) is one of the most important hiking areas of the Black Forest and is covered by a dense network of trails. Through the Wutach Gorge run two main trails maintained by the Black Forest Club: * Southern Freiburg-Bodensee Trail * Ostweg * Schluchtensteig South of the Wutach Gorge, from Grimmelshofen downstream, there are footpaths and cycleways by the side of the river.

References

Literature

* Geographisch-Kartographisches Institut Meyer ubl. ''Meyers Naturführer – Südschwarzwald'' Mannheim, 1989. . * Otto F. Geyer et al.: ''Die Hochrhein-Regionen zwischen Bodensee und Basel'' = Sammlung Geologischer Führer, 94, Berlin, 2003, . * Dieter Kohlhepp: ''Die Wutachschlucht – Bild einer Urlandschaft.'' 3rd edn. Rombach Verlag, Freiburg, 1991, . * Landesanstalt für Umweltschutz rsg. ''Die Wutach – Naturkundliche Monographie einer Flusslandschaft'' = Natur- u. Landsch.-Schutzgeb. Baden-Württ., Vol. 6, Karlsruhe, 1988 . * Otti Wilmanns: ''Exkursionsführer Schwarzwald – eine Einführung in Landschaft und Vegetation'' Stuttgart, 2001 . Note: Several digital maps erroneously show the course of the Wutach following the former route of the Feldbergdonau, probably as a result of misinterpretation the drainage ditch which links the Schleifebach (Wutach-Nebenbach) and the Aitrach (Danube tributary) and thus forms a pseudo-bifurcation.

External links

Europäische Wasserrahmenrichtlinie (WRRL) – Teilbearbeitungsgebiet Wutach
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